FAME GAME

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, November 8, 1995

HOLLYWOOD - David Caruso may have been rolling snake eyes since he left "NYPD Blue" - but don't count him out of the game.

While some insiders have believed that the misfire of his twopost-series features - "Kiss of Death" and "Jade" - would spell the death of Caruso's future in films, he's been completing the script for "The Insider." It's a big-screen action adventure about a man / woman espionage team that must take a child into custody to pose as a family. According to his camp, Caruso will star in and produce the feature that will be made by Live Entertainment.

It's been assumed by some that Caruso would try to return to TV. Except . . . this column has learned that when producer Steven Bochco agreed to release Caruso from his

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"NYPD Blue" contract, it was with the proviso that the actor could not star in any other series for a couple of years.

AT LONG LAST: The Don Johnson series that was slated to debut this fall is finally cranking up. The actor who went from "Miami Vice" to movies goes before the TV cameras Dec. 7 to start the pilot for the show now going under the title "Bridges." The storyline seems the same as when it was being called "Off Duty." He'll play a San Francisco cop with an ex-wife - and a soon-to-be-ex-wife. They've added a 16-year-old daughter to the proceedings.

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE . . .: The holiday doesn't start until Dec. 18, but "ER" is already shooting its Hanukkah episode. Titled "A Miracle Happens Here," it has to do with a Holocaust survivor who's the victim of a carjacking. She regains consciousness in the emergency room, connects with Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards), reminds him of his religious heritage and, eventually, celebrates the holiday with him and her family at her bedside.

STILL TREKKING: The gang from the original "Star Trek" series may well be reuniting next April - for a 30th anniversary tribute to the mother of all sci-fi shows, to take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London. "Little did we ever dream it would come to this," comments George Takei - that's Mr. Sulu to you Trekkies out there.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . .: Savoy Pictures is now saying it will release "Faithful" sometime in 1996 - and Cher might have mixed emotions about that. She made the

"comeback" film in 1994 with Ryan O'Neal, and with Chazz Palminteri, who also wrote the story. By the time it was through, Cher was reportedly unhappy over the way she looked in the film. She wasn't the only one who had complaints. The producers thought director Paul Mazursky made the movie too long and wanted to take over final cut, and war erupted. The matter went to arbitration - and as it now stands, whenever it gets taken off the shelf, it will go into release the way Mazursky made it.&lt;

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